Shocking levels of mercury found leaking from Greenland’s ice sheet0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- June 3, 2021
The unexpected findings of high mercury levels from melting ice in Greenland raises concerns about the origins of this element.
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Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- March 16, 2021
Long-lost ice core provides direct evidence that giant ice sheet melted off within the last million years and is highly vulnerable to a warming climate
Mysterious ‘Dark River’ may flow for 1,000 km underneath Greenland0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 20, 2020
Models suggest that melting water from the centre of Greenland’s ice sheet could flow through a subglacial valley and exit into the ocean along the northern coast of the country.
Primeval Greenland lake found buried beneath a mile-thick slab of ice0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 12, 2020
Scientists have discovered an ancient lakebed buried under more than a mile of ice that may hold secrets to Greenland’s past climate.
Greenland drilling campaign aims for bedrock to trace ice sheet’s last disappearance0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 10, 2020
Global warming is accelerating the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet, which locks up enough water to raise sea levels by 7 meters.
2 architects are building a habitat to live on the moon. They’re going into total isolation in Greenland for 3 months to test it.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 20, 2020
A Danish architecture firm is building a prototype for eventual lunar habitation, asking “what does it take to live on the moon?”.
Greenland rocks suggest Earth’s magnetic field is older than we thought0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- December 12, 2019
Analysis finds that the planet’s protective shield was in place by at least 3.7 billion years ago, as early life arose.
Greenland crater renewed the debate over an ancient climate mystery0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 19, 2018
Scientists disagree on what the find means for a controversial comet-impact hypothesis
Huge crater discovered in Greenland – here’s how the impact may have wiped out the mammoths0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- November 27, 2018
Scientists have discovered a 31km wide impact crater beneath the Hiawatha glacier in Greenland. The discovery, published in Science Advances, was made using airborne radar surveys which unveiled a circular bedrock depression beneath the ice. The presence of quartz and other grains and features on the ground helped the team confirm the finding – these
Greenland impact crater could help explain disappearance of woolly mammoths, early humans0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- November 20, 2018
A scarily large meteorite crater has just been discovered in Greenland. It hit the world with the force of 700,000,000 nuclear bombs.
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